NYPD announces 2019 West Indian Day Parade safety measures
The 2019 West Indian Day Parade and the pre-dawn party known as J’Ouvert, held annually on Labor Day, will be under the watchful eye of thousands of police officers, 300 floodlights and about 60 cameras along the two-mile parade route in Crown Heights.
“There will literally be a cop everywhere doing what they do best: keeping neighborhoods safe,” said Chief of Department Terence Monahan at a press conference on Wednesday. “This is the largest detail we’ve put out all year.”
Police will shut down the route the night before — on Sept. 1 — using NYPD blocker cars, barriers and city sanitation sand trucks to secure the perimeter, which will include large swaths of Parkside Avenue, Empire Boulevard, Flatbush Avenue, Nostrand Avenue and Eastern Parkway as well as smaller street closures.